Must One Man Have . . . Trivia Quiz

Answer: Noah

The story of Noah is told in Genesis and chapter 5 records that Noah was born when his father Lamech was 182 years and that Lamech lived for 777 years. Noah too had a long life and by the time he was 500 years old he had become the father of Shem, Ham and Japheth.

Chapter 6 tells of how the world's people had graually become wicked but that Noah was the exception as he was a righteous and devout man. God told Noah about His intention to cover the earth with floodwater and destroy every living thing in the world because of this wickedness but that He had decided to spare Noah and his family. Then God instructed Noah to build an enormous boat or ark of cypress (or gopher) wood that should be 450 feet long, 75 feet wide and 45 feet high. Noah was to make it waterproof by coating it inside and out with pitch and it was to contain rooms, have three decks, a roof and a door in one side. Noah built this boat and God explained that Noah, his wife, their three sons and their wives should enter the boat and bring a male and a female of every kind of creature into it.

Then chapter 7 shows that God added that Noah was to take two pairs of unclean animals but seven pairs of clean animals and of birds into the ark and he did this. After the people and animals had entered the ark Noah was 600 years old and God caused it to rain solidly for forty days and nights and the water rose high enough to cover all the land, including the tallest mountains. Every living land and air creature was killed except for the people and creatures in the ark and after the rain had stopped the earth remained covered with water for some months as the waters gradually receded.

As recounted in chapter 8, eventually the water had receded enough for the ark to become stationary on Mount Ararat and it continued to recede so that by the start of the tenth month the mountain tops had become visible. Another forty days later Noah sent out a raven, and afterwards a dove, but they could not land as the ground was still covered with water and the dove returned to the ark. Seven days later Noah sent the dove out again and it returned carrying an olive leaf then it was sent out again later and did not return. Noah eventually saw that the earth's surface was dry and God told him to bring his family and all the creatures out of the ark, which he did. Noah then built an altar and sacrificed some of the clean animals and birds to God.

Chapter 9 shows how God promised never to cause another such destructive flood and created a rainbow in the clouds to mark this promise. Noah lived for another 350 years then died when he was 950 years old.

Answer: Abraham

The history of Abraham is recounted in the book of Genesis and chapter 11 tells that Abraham was originally named Abram and was born and brought up in the city of Ur in Chaldea. When he was an adult he, his wife Sarai and others of his family moved to the town of Harran. Chapter 12 shows that some time later, when Abram was 75 years old, God told him to move with his family to Canaan, which he did, and eventually he and and Sarai settled there, as chapter 13 explains.

Chapter 15 tells how Abram saw God in a vision and reminded Him that he had no children to leave his possessions to. God told him he would have as many descendants as there were stars in the sky and that they would have a large amount of land.

In chapter 17, when Abram was 99 years old and Sarai was 90, God told him to change their names to Abraham and Sarah and promised them a child. He renewed his promise to give Abraham and his descendants land but added the condition that all males in Abraham's household must be circumcised. This Abraham caused to be done the same day but he was unsure how his wife could have a son so God assured him that she would do and said that they should name him Isaac. Chapter 21 shows that Sarah did have a son in the next year and that they did name him Isaac.

Chapter 22 recounts how years later God tested Abraham by telling him to sacrifice Isaac to Him by burning him to death on a particular mountain that He described. The next day Abraham, Isaac and two servants set out with a donkey carrying a lot of wood and in three days they reached the mountain. Abraham directed the servants to wait at a distance while he and Isaac took the wood, some fire and a knife to the mountain. Isaac asked where the sacrificial lamb was and Abraham told him that God would provide it. Then Abraham built an altar and laid the wood on it before tying Isaac up and laying him on top. He then raised the knife to kill his son but an angel appeared and stopped him then Abraham looked up and saw a thicket in which a ram was trapped by his horns. So Abraham sacrificed this ram instead of Isaac and God was pleased with Abraham for revering Him and repeated his promise that Abraham would have countless descendants.

Although Sarah died when she was 127 years old according to chapter 23, chapter 25 shows that Abraham lived until he was 175 and by then his descendants were already increasing, as God had predicted they would.

Answer: Jacob

The book of Genesis recounts the history of Jacob and chapter 25 tells how Isaac, the son of Abraham and Sarah, married Rebekah. They were unable to have children until Isaac prayed to God to allow his wife to become pregnant and then Rebekah eventually gave birth to twin sons, Esau and Jacob. As they grew up Esau, who was the older, became a skilful hunter and Jacob remained among the tents. One day Esau returned home very hungry and asked for some of the lentil stew that Jacob was cooking. Jacob insisted that Esau made over his birthright as first son to him before he gave him some stew and bread.

When Isaac was old and could not see well he wished to give Esau his blessing as his older son, as chapter 27 shows. However, with Rebekah's help Jacob tricked his father into thinking that he was Esau and received the blessing instead, so giving him authority over Esau. When Esau found out he asked Isaac for his blessing too but in vain so he became very angry and said he would kill Jacob. Rebekah heard this and persuaded Jacob to flee to her brother Laban and to stay away until Esau was no longer angry. Chapter 28 adds that Isaac advised Jacob to marry one of Laban's daughters.

Jacob followed his parents' advice and Chapter 29 describes how Jacob reached the home of Laban, eventually married Laban's daughters Leah and Rachel and worked for Laban for twenty years. Chapter 30 shows that during the later part of that time Jacob built up flocks of animals of his own. However, chapter 31 explains that Laban's sons and Laban were displeased about this so God told Jacob to return to Isaac and Jacob, his wives and his children accordingly departed with their flocks. After travelling some way Jacob sent a message to Esau to say that he was coming and Esau replied that he was coming out with four hundred men to meet Jacob, as chapter 32 shows.

The same chapter continues by describing how Jacob felt afraid on learning this and gradually sent many of his animals towards Esau, telling the servants looking after them to say they were gifts from him to Esau. Jacob sent his wives, his other servants, his sons and all his possessions across a stream but decided to spend the night beside the stream himself. Jacob was alone there and a man came and wrestled with him all through the night. Eventually the man realised he could not beat Jacob so he touched the socket of Jacob's hip while they were wrestling and this wrenched the hip so that Jacob afterwards limped. However the man still could not overpower Jacob and when daybreak came he asked Jacob to let him go.

Jacob refused to do this until the man blessed him and, after finding out that his name was Jacob, the man said he should be called Israel from then onwards as he had struggled with both God and humans and had won. Jacob asked the man his name but he did not say although he blessed Jacob, who decided to call the place Peniel, meaning the face of God, because he saw God's face but was spared. Chapter 33 describes how Jacob carried on travelling until he met Esau and the brothers were reconciled and then both went on their way. According to chapter 35, God later appeared to Jacob and confirmed that his name should be Israel and said that he would have many descendants, including kings. Jacob and his family eventually reached his father Isaac, who died at the age of 180 and was buried by Jacob and Esau.

Answer: Solomon

King David is shown in the books of 1 Samuel and 2 Samuel to have had a number of wives and concubines but only some wives and children are named. Among the children was Solomon, also known as Jedidah, who was the son of David and his eighth wife, Bathsheba, according to 2 Samuel chapters 11 and 12. David became king when he was thirty and reigned for forty years, as 2 Samuel chapter 4 explains, while 1 Kings chapter 1 descibes how he was then old and infirm and his eldest surviving son, Adonijah, declared himself king. However, reminded by Bathsheba, David reaffirmed his earlier declaration that Solomon should be the next king and, to the acclaim of the population, caused Solomon to be publicly declared king from then on. Solomon was at first merciful to Abonijah but 1 Kings chapter 2 shows that when David died Adonijah asked to marry a concubine of David's, which may have been regarded as similar to claiming the throne, so Solomon had him killed.

The book of 1 Kings chapter 3 describes how Solomon dreamed that when God offered to grant him one request he asked for the wisdom to be a good ruler. God was pleased with this so not only acceded to that request but in addition granted Solomon a long life and unsurpassed riches. Chapters 3 and 4 explain that God also gave Solomon these things in his waking life and that he became known for his wisdom in several countries.

Chapter 10 of 1 Kings states that Solomon became richer than any other king on the earth. His annual revenue grew to 666 talents of gold and he also had additional income from traders and merchants, from area governors and from kings of other lands in the area. Other income came from visitors such as the Queen of Sheba, who visited and gave Solomon 120 talents of gold, a vast quantity of spices, and precious stones. All these revenues enabled Solomon to obtain many expensive possessions and he was also able to have many things built in Israel, including a splendid temple in Jerusalem, as described in 1 Kings chapters 5, 6 and 7. Chapter 7 also tells how Solomon had a magnificent palace built for himself and that it included his personal living areas in a separate court.

In this palace Solomon also had a separate house built for the wife he had married and who had lived in another part of Jerusalem while the palace was being built. She was the daughter of the pharoah of Egypt and he married her when he made an alliance with the pharoah, as 1 Kings chapter 3 recounts. Chapter 11 explains how over the years Solomon married some seven hundred wives of royal birth, and also took three hundred concubines.

Some of his wives came from Edom, Ammon, Moab, Sidonia and the Hittites' lands and Solomon married these ladies despite God having previously told the Israelis not to associate with such peoples because they would turn them away from God. However, Solomon stayed with these wives from love, as chapter 11 states. Over the course of time this led to his wives leading him astray so that he did not fully follow the Lord but, for instance, had idols built for some wives to worship and even worshipped some foreign idols himself. Solomon continued to do this despite a warning from God, and God later told Solomon that He would allow him to continue ruling the country only because of the devoutness of his father David. God added that most of the land would be taken away by others from his son, Rehoboam, when he became the next king and this in fact did happen.

Answer: Samson

The history of Samson is recounted in the book of Judges and chapter 13 shows how an angel told a childless wife that she would have a son but must not drink any alcohol or eat any unclean food. When born her son was to be a Nazarite - a holy person who abstained from grape products and did not cut their hair - and he would lead the delivery of Israel from the Philistines then occupying it. In due course she had a boy who she named Samson and he grew up to be exceptionally strong and killed many Philistines. Once Samson went to Timnah to marry a Philistine woman who lived there and the inhabitants chose thirty men to be his companions, as chapter 14 explains. Samson promised to give them each a set of clothes if they could solve a riddle but wanted them to give him thirty sets if they could not solve it. They coerced Samson's wife into telling them the answer but Samson knew they had cheated, grew angry and killed thirty other Philistines then gave their clothes to the companions and went back to his own home.

Chapter 15 recounts how a while later Samson went to Timnah to visit his wife but her father told him that he had given her to another man. As retribution Samson captured 300 foxes and tied them together in pairs by their tails, to which he tied torches. He then set light to the torches and drove the foxes into the grainfields resulting in not only the grain, but also the orchards and the olive groves, being destroyed. In retaliation the Philistines burned his wife and her father to death and Samson responded by killing many of them before going to Judah. People there were frightened for their safety when the Philistines followed but Samson agreed that they could tie him up and deliver him to the Philistines. When the groups neared each other Samson's ties fell off and he picked up the jawbone of an ass and killed one thousand Philistines with it.

After that Samson led the Israelis as their judge for some twenty years. Chapter 16 tells of how he fell in love with a woman named Delilah who lived on the border between Israel and the Philistines' own land. The Philistine rulers each offered her 1,100 shekels of silver if she found out the secret of his strength and how he could be captured and then passed the information on to them. When she asked Samson he first told her that tying him up with seven bowstrings would render him weak but, when she told the Philistines and tied him up while they waited in the next room, he easily broke the bowstrings so the Philistines could not capture him.

Delilah asked him again and he then told her he needed to be tied up with new ropes but he also broke those ropes easily. The next time she asked, Samson told her that weaving the braids of his hair into a loom would work but again he freed himself instantly. Delilah carried on wheedling until he eventually gave in and told her that he was a Nazarite and that if his hair was cut he would lose his extra strength. Delilah told the Philistines, coaxed Samson to sleep then had someone shave his braids off whereupon his strength left him. The waiting Philistines then captured, blinded and shackled him and took him away to work grinding grain in prison but his hair began to grow again.

Chapter 16 continues to recount how the Philistine rulers wanted to make an offering to their god at their temple and had Samson taken from prison to entertain both them and a large crowd numbering thousands that had gathered. Samson asked the servant escorting him to let him rest against the pillars, which the servant did. Samson there prayed to God for the strength to revenge himself on the people who blinded him and declared he was ready to die too. He then braced himself with one hand against each of the two main pillars of the temple and pushed them so hard that the temple fell down, killing the thousands of Philistines there and Samson himself. His whole family came to retrieve his body and buried him in his father's tomb.

Answer: Daniel

The story of Daniel appears in the Old Testament book of that name and chapter 1 tells how the Babylonian king, Nebuchadnezzar, successfully besieged Jerusalem. He then commanded that some of the best young men from important families should be taken to Babylon, trained for three years and then enter his service. Daniel and three of his friends were among those chosen from Judah and they were given new names so that, for instance, Daniel also became known as Belteshazzar. When the three years were over, the king examined all the young men and found Daniel and his friends to be the wisest of them and that Daniel could even interpret dreams and visions.

Chapter 2 tells of how Nebuchadnezzar had been having dreams that troubled him but that his wise men and magicians could not interpret these so they were due to be executed. Then Daniel and his friends were asked to interpret, which Daniel did with God's help. Nebuchadnezzar not only spared all the others but also made Daniel ruler of Babylon province and his friends administrators. In chapter 4 Daniel again interpreted a dream of the king, and what he said the dream predicted came to pass.

As chapter 5 shows, Daniel was later rewarded for interpreting some mysterious writing for Nebuchadnezzar's son, king Balshazzar, but the same night that king was killed and Darius the Mede took over his kingdom. Daniel found favour with Darius too and was made one of the three administrators who oversaw the 120 satraps appointed by Darius, as chapter 6 explains. Daniel did so well that the king planned to make him the chief official in the kingdom but the other administrators and the satraps were jealous and tried to find evidence of maladministraion by Daniel but they could not. So they decided to use his religious beliefs to have him charged with an offence and persuaded the king to issue an edict binding on everyone that they should pray only to Darius for thirty days, or else be thrown into a den with lions.

Daniel continued to pray to God three times a day and was found doing this by the conspirators who denounced him to Darius. The king was upset and tried to think of how to save Daniel but the conspirators reminded him that his edict was binding. The king thus had to carry out the punishment and so Daniel was thrown into the lions' den and the entrance was blocked up by a stone and then sealed with the king's and other people's signet rings.

Chapter 6 continues the story by describing how Darius could not eat or sleep while Daniel was in the den and how the next morning he went to the den and called out to find out if God had protected Daniel. Daniel called back that an angel had sealed the mouths of the lions because he was innocent in God's view and added that he had never done any harm to Darius either. When released from the den Daniel was discovered to have no wounds and the king rejoiced then later wrote to other nations to inform them that he had issued a decree that everyone in his kingdom must reverence Daniel's God. In addition, not only those men who had accused Daniel, but also their wives and children, were thrown into the lions' den and immediately attacked and eaten by the lions. Daniel continued with his life and carried on having prescient dreams and visions that he interpreted with the help of God.

Answer: Joseph

Luke Chapter 1 tells of a priest named Zechariah and his wife Elizatheth who had always led righteous lives but had not been able to have children. When Zechariah was carrying out his duties alone in the temple the angel Gabriel appeared, which scared Zechariah, but the angel told him that his prayer would be answered and that Elizabeth would have a son who was to be named John. Gabriel added that John would become a great man and bring many people back to worshipping God. Zechariah expressed uncertainty as he and his wife were fairly old and Gabriel told him that he would be unable to talk until John was born because he had doubted Gabriel's words.

The same chapter also shows that Elizabeth did become pregnant and acknowledged that God had enabled this to happen. When Elizabeth was in her sixth month of pregnancy God also sent Gabriel to appear to a young woman named Mary, who lived in Nazareth and was engaged to be married to a carpenter there called Joseph. Gabriel told Mary that she was greatly favoured as God was with her, which worried Mary, but Gabriel then told her not to be frghtened as she would become pregnant and have a son who should be called Jesus. He added that Jesus would become a very important being and would be given David's throne and reign over Jacob's descendants forever. Mary wondered how she could have a baby as she was still a virgin but Gabriel told her that the Holy Spirit would come to her and the resulting child would be a holy person and be called the Son of God.

The angel added that Mary's relative Elizabeth was pregnant despite her advanced age and that God's word would never fail. Mary responded by saying that she was God's servant and hoped that Gabriel's words would come true. Luke chapter 1 continues by recounting how a while later Mary visited Elizabeth at her home in the Judean hills and how when she entered the house and greeted Elizabeth the baby in the latter's womb jumped. Elizabeth cried out that Mary and her expected child were blessed and that she felt awed by Mary coming to her. Mary stayed there for some three months before returning to Nazareth.

Matthew chapter 1 tells how when Joseph found out that his fiancee Mary was pregnant, and not by him, he did not want her to be subjected to public opprobrium but he also followed the law so thought he would marry her then quietly divorce her. However, he too was then visited by an angel, although this angel was not named and appeared to him in a dream. The angel told Joseph not to be worried about marrying Mary as her coming child was conceived through the Holy Spirit and that he was to be called Jesus because he would save people from sinning. Joseph remembered the dream when he woke up and did what the angel told him to by marrying Mary and taking her to live with him.

As Luke chapter 2 explains, the Roman emperor Caesar Augustus had decreed that everyone in the Roman world should travel to their place of birth to be registered so they could be counted in a great census. Accordingly, while Mary was still pregnant she travelled with Joseph from Nazareth in Galilee to the town of Bethlehem in Judea where he had been born. When they reached Bethlehem they were unable to find a place to stay but an innkeeper allowed them to sleep in his stable. There Mary gave birth to a son, who the couple did name Jesus, and laid him in a manger. Then angels appeared to shepherds tending their flocks in nearby fields and told them about the birth of the Saviour and Lord. The angels also told them where to find the baby, so the shepherds went to visit Jesus and afterwards praised God and told other people about what they had experienced.

Answer: The Good Samaritan

When Jesus had gained many followers and was travelling around the towns and other places in Galilee He sometimes used parables to teach his followers. One such was the parable of the Good Samaritan and this is recounted in chapter 10 of Luke's Gospel.

In one place a legal expert wanted to test Jesus so asked Him what he needed to do to have eternal life. Jesus responded by asking what the Law said and the lawyer answered that it told people to love God completely and to love their neighbours as they love themselves. Jesus affirmed this was correct but the lawyer then asked who his neighbour was.

Jesus responded by telling a parable about a man who was attacked by robbers while he was on the road travelling between Jerusalem and Jericho. They beat him badly and robbed him, even stealing his clothes, and left him lying in a very bad state by the road. A few people passed by and saw him but the first person to do so, who was a Jewish priest, crossed the road to avoid the injured man and continued walking. The next person to travel along the road was a Levite, who had religious responsibilities as a descendant of Levi, but he too crossed the road when he saw the victim and also carried on walking.

The next person to come along was a Samaritan, and the Samaritans and Jewish people were traditionally enemies, but when he saw the injured man he took pity on him and stopped. He bandaged the man's wounds, even pouring oil and water on them, then he put the man on his own mount, and took him to an inn. There he looked after the man until the next day, when he left but gave the innkeeper two denarii to carry on taking care of the man. He also promised the innkeeper to repay any additional expenses he incurred on his return.

Jesus then asked the man of law which of the three passersby he accounted the neighbour of the robbers' victim. The man said it was the one who showed compassion and Jesus told him to go and act in the same way as the Good Samaritan had.

Answer: Peter

The first four books of the New Testament, known as Gospels, were written by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John and together they show how Jesus chose his disciples. The first three writers all agree that He first invited two sets of brothers to join him and that all four were fishermen. Matthew chapter 4 and Mark chapter 1 describe how Jesus was travelling around the Sea of Galilee area preaching when He saw the first two brothers, who were named Andrew and Simon, who was also called Peter. Jesus called to them to follow Him and that He would make them 'fishers of men'. The same two chapters also describe how He soon afterwards saw and called to his cousins James and John to accompany Him and that all four men responded to His call. They followed Him from then onwards as he continued to travel throughout Galilee teaching people and healing their illnesses, as Matthew chapter 4 describes.

In total Jesus chose twelve disciples and Mark chapter 3 adds that they not only became His companions but He also sent them out to preach and to drive out demons. The Gospels contain a number of stories about Jesus and the disciples and, as one example, Matthew chapter 14 recounts that the disciples were in a boat on choppy waters when Jesus started walking across the surface of the water towards them. This scared the disciples as they thought He was a ghost but Jesus told them it was Him and to have courage, whereupon Peter asked Him to tell him to also walk on the water. This He did and Peter started to walk across the water but became frightened and started to sink. Jesus saved him but asked why Peter had so little faith.

Matthew chapter 26 explains that Peter, James and John became the disciples closest to Jesus, and that Peter was accepted as being the leading disciple. The same chapter also describes what happened at the last supper attended by Jesus and the twelve in Jerusalem before He was arrested. Jesus foretold that He would soon be crucified and that that very night the disciples would fall away from Him but that He would rise again and go ahead of them to Galilee. Peter was the first to respond by saying that he would never fall away from Jesus and the others agreed with him that they would never disown Jesus, even if it meant their own deaths. Luke chapter 22 adds that Jesus asked Peter to strengthen the other disciples and Peter answered that he was ready to go to prison and death with Jesus but Jesus predicted that Peter would deny knowing Him three times before the rooster crowed.

Both Matthew chapter 26 and Luke chapter 22 show how later that night Judas Iscariot betrayed Jesus to the high priest's men and He was arrested and taken to the high priest's house where He was ill-treated by the high priest, Caiaphas, the elders and the Sanhedrin. The chapters continue by describing how Peter alone followed at a distance and went into the high priest's courtyard, where he sat down with other people. A servant girl saw him and said that he had been with Jesus of Galilee but Peter denied knowing Him then went out to the gateway. There another person soon afterwards said that Peter was one of the disciples and Peter denied this strongly. A short time later other people went to Peter and said that Peter's Galilean accent showed that he must have been with Jesus and this time Peter insisted vehemently that he did not know the man. At this third denial a rooster crowed and Peter then recalled what Jesus had predicted, went outside and wept bitterly.

After Jesus was crucified and rose again before ascending into Heaven, the Acts of the Apostles, along with later books of the New Testament and other documents, show that Peter and the other disciples travelled widely to spread the word of Jesus among different communities in different countries. Peter eventually became head of the Christian church in Rome, and was later accounted the first Pope, but was killed in AD 64 during the reign of the emperor Nero.

Answer: Paul

The story of Paul is told in The Acts of the Apostles. Then known as Saul, he was born in Tarsus but brought up in Jerusalem, as chapter 2 recounts. Chapter 23 adds that he was born into the strict religious Pharisee class and was a Pharisee himself, while chapter 6 reports that as a young man he was there when Stephen was stoned to death. Chapter 7 shows how Saul joined in the subsequent persecution of believers in Jesus in Jerusalem by going from house to house dragging adults out and putting them in prison.

Chapter 9 recounts how Saul asked the high priest for letters to synagogues in Damascus that would allow him to take any followers of Jesus he found there to Jerusalem as prisoners. Saul then travelled towards Damascus but, when he was nearing that city, a light from the sky flashed around him. In response he dropped to the ground and heard a voice asking why he persecuted the speaker. When Saul asked who was speaking, the voice identified himself as Jesus and then told Saul to arise and enter Damascus where he would be told how to act.

Saul got up and opened his eyes and could see nothing but Saul's fellow travellers had heard too and led him into Damascus. There he remained unable to see for three days while he fasted and prayed. God then appeared to a disciple named Ananias and told him to go and touch Paul to restore his sight. Ananias demurred, telling God that Saul had come to arrest Christ's followers but God responded that He had chosen Saul to be his instrument to proclaim His name to both Israelis and Gentiles.

Then chapter 9 continues by explaining that Ananias went to Saul and said a prayer while he laid his hand on Saul, whereupon Saul could see again, was baptized and then spent several days with the disciples in Damascus. To the disciples' surprise Saul began teaching that Jesus is the Son of God and grew more powerful so that Jews in that city planned to kill him but he escaped back to Jerusalem. Saul joined the disciples there in preaching but again some Jews there wanted to kill him and he fled to Tarsus. He was later joined by Barnabas then they travelled extensively around a wide area preaching and converting people but being conspired against by some Jews, as chapter 11 recounts. Chapter 13 first mentions that Saul was also called Paul and from then onwards he is referred to as 'Paul'.

Eventually Paul travelled back to Jerusalem and chapter 21 shows how he was warmly welcomed but that soon after he arrived some Jews stirred the crowd up against him and he was beaten but saved by some Roman soldiers arresting him. They released him again but, according to chapter 23, Paul later found out that the Jewish priests were again plotting to kill him, and the Romans arranged for him to be transferred to a prison in Ceasarea, where he stayed for two years, as chapter 24 relates. Then the Jewish leaders made false accustions against him and Paul was sent to Rome where he stayed and preached for another two years, as described in chapter 28. The Bible does not tell about Paul's later life but it is believed that he was later beheaded in Rome, possibly in the time of Nero, an emperor who persecuted Christians.